Mattias Engdegård added the comment:
The patch looks all right in general. I would use something like
if "poll" in dir(select)
instead of catching AttributeError which risks hiding bugs in
_communicate_with_poll().
PEP8 probably wants spaces around the bitwise-or operator.
So
Mattias Engdegård added the comment:
This is not a vague wish at all. The implementation is at odds with the
documentation, and in fact nobody has been able to explain just how
Python works or should work. Read msg24424 again - it all boils down to
explaining why the variable x in
def f(x
Mattias Engdegård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
As the comment in the original bug report said, you need to raise the
file descriptor limit to something well above 2000 before running the
test case.
Needless to say, you may need to do that part as root in case that would
excee
New submission from Mattias Engdegård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
If the stdin/out file descriptors are too large to be used with
select(), subprocess will fail in .communicate(). Example:
# raise the fd limit to something like 2048 before running this
import subprocess
somefiles = [open("
